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(meteorobs) More on the Jordan event
Dear All!
Here is something more on the Jordan event, which I discovered in
Internet.
The event seems to occur on the 18 April' local evening. It more
resembles a geophysical
event, than a meteoritic one, but the description is very brief for any
solid conclusion.... (also 10 meters =33 f)
Maybe somebody has some extra-data?
Sincerely,
Andrei Ol'khovatov
Russia, Moscow
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AMMAN (AFP) - Residents of a Jordanian village attending a funeral got
an unwelcome surprise when a fiery meteorite crashed down in their
midst, one of them told AFP Monday.
"More than 100 of us were gathered Wednesday at sundown to bury a
village resident when we saw a strange object that looked like a ball of
fire," said Mohammed Nawaf Mikdadi, mayor of Beit Eidess, some 85
kilometers (50 miles) north of Amman.
"The meteor shot through the sky from west to east before a part of it
came down a half kilometer (quarter mile) from the village, sparking an
explosion and then a fire with four-meter (12-foot) flames for 10 meters
(100 feet) straight," Mikdadi told AFP.
"The villagers thought it was a missile, but when we went to the spot
there weren't any metal scraps," he said.
The mayor expressed relief the meteorite fell on a rocky area near Beit
Eidess and not in a nearby forest, which could have spelled disaster for
the village.
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